QUESTION (resumed) :
Natural feelings or obsession of selfrealisation?
QUESTION (original) :
I practice zazen daily since 15 years. I perceive myself as being very involved, but, an inner pressure pushes me, as if I have to engage myself even deeper. I still don’t know how to see the difference between the obsession of being more and more perfect and the natural feeling of a being which wants to realise itself. What do you think?
ANSWER :
The engagement you’re speaking about is, I guess, an inner involvement and not an outer one towards a group of people. It is inside of ourselves that we have to, little by little, integrate our deep nature that is part of the family of the Buddhas. To place the fact of realising the self as a priority of life seems very outstanding to me, but I don’t know if my opinion is very reasonable, because I am considered a bit crazy from the point of view of the society.
KOSEN!